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SKOMP3910 Bachelor's Thesis Course description

Course name in Norwegian
Bacheloroppgave
Study programme
Supplementary education for nurses educated outside the EU/EEC
Weight
15.0 ECTS
Year of study
2025/2026
Course history

Introduction

Formelhefte vil være tilgjengelig på eksamen

Kalkulator - ikke programmerbar

Required preliminary courses

Eksamen vurderes etter gradert skala fra A til E for bestått og F for ikke bestått.

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills, and general competence:

Knowledge

The student

  • can discuss the nurse’s role and responsibilities in a chosen area of specialisation
  • can summarise relevant research and professional development in the chosen specialisation

Skills

The student

  • can create a project description, including a time schedule and how he/she intends to complete the bachelor’s thesis with the resources available
  • can formulate a clear research question relating to nursing, which is possible to answer within the framework of the thesis
  • can carry out an independent systematic literature review in accordance with the applicable research standards
  • can clarify concepts, analysing and assessing different sources of information, and using these sources to formulate relevant argumentation
  • can present specialist literature in an independent, logical, critical and systematic manner

General competence

The student i

  • can disseminate and arguing for strengths and weaknesses of his/her own study in a substantial and methodical manner
  • can reflect on relevant research ethics issues

Teaching and learning methods

Emnet er delt inn i fem hovedtemaer:

  • Naturfag og naturfagdidaktikk
  • Økologi
  • Grunnleggende kjemi
  • Fysikk
  • Kroppen som system

Course requirements

The following coursework requirement must have been approved in order for the student to take the examination:

  • Project description for the bachelor’s thesis, scope 1,000 words (+/- 10%).
  • Completed supervision, three compulsory supervision sessions out of the four sessions offered.

Assessment

Bachelor’s thesis.

  • Literature review.
  • Normally written in group with 2-3 students.
  • Scope of 8,000 words (+/- 10%).

Resits/rescheduled exam: If the bachelor’s thesis is awarded a fail grade, the student has the right to submit a reworked version once.

Permitted exam materials and equipment

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Grading scale

Grade scale A-F.

Examiners

One internal and one external examiner.

Overlapping courses

SYKK3900, SYKP3900, SYKD3900 and SKOMP3910 are fully overlapping.